Food:Truth or Scare. - BBC 1

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Interesting programme on BBC1 just now - ‘Food: Truth or Scare.’ It throws up a lot of interesting information about light/dark chocolate, possible benefits of chocolate on dental health, the question of sugar v artificial sweetener. It covers the ‘scare’ of diet drinks that ‘one fizzy diet drink per day raises the risk of stroke and dementia’. Bottom line, and probably stating the obvious, is that sweeteners are better for Type 2 diabetes than sugar. What a tightrope we walk.

Ps - sorry about the title typo.

 

[mikeyB]

Yup - though it seemed a statement of the obvious to anyone with anyone with a brain.

I don’t think it’s a tightrope we walk, it’s a healthy diet. Including my daily sugar free IrnBru

 

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Yup - though it seemed a statement of the obvious to anyone with anyone with a brain.

I don’t think it’s a tightrope we walk, it’s a healthy diet. Including my daily sugar free IrnBru

I didn’t mean that it was diabetics who walk a tightrope. I meant everyone and was referring to the way in which knowledge and advice about food swings one way then the other.

 

[MrsPeel]

@mikeyB ok, so, I do have a brain (this is a LOL thing, nit exactly contesting your statement) - I even worked within the medical profession for years, even though some of it was long time ago and my brain is now mushed by medication and neurological impairments- but I was convinced until very very recently that actually all were the same (sugars & sweeteners) because this is what the Diabetes Dietitian I saw for 16 sessions when I was first diagnosed told me. (this was 2012 but doubt things changed since then? I'm quiet sure we already had stevia then?) She said our system, our bodies react to all the same way.

I changed my mind after a couple of month ago I had to go back to an extreme diet to try save the risk of having to go to dialysis (or die!) and started looking for low carbs, low sugars recipes. Some blogs are extremely thorough and give you the calories and mentioning how some replacements (not only of sugars but also of flours) can help.... plus I came back to the Diabetes Uk's site and started reading more...
Having said that.... I am dizzy, constantly, by TV or articles in "healthy" magazines or in newspapers that one day have one product as amazing then 6 months later tell me it can bring cancer.... the last was asparagus.... which I love, so I refused to even read the article, saw the tittle but didn't want to have that in the back of my mind , then again, some programs have really enlighten me about some food health issues, some allergies and food intolerance's too....

do you guys have a preferred sweetener?
I only use it in cooking deserts, but still need to make my mind up as to what is better to use...
I have Truvia and recently got (on offer) something called Whole Earth, that is stevia with erythritol , which by what I have read, is good as much less calories are absorbed, I think is a bit sweeter than Truvia. I love dark brown sugar, but try not to use it too often... I'm still trying to discover if it is worth buying just erythritol.

 

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I use bog standard tablet sweeteners for coffee and tea. As a sugar replacement in cooking and baking I have used Xilitol and Erythritol. To be honest, tho’, I try to avoid using them as they are ridiculously expensive.